Corporate Video Production in Dallas
Corporate films and client testimonials filmed anywhere in Dallas-Fort Worth by trusted local crews. A member of our team is on set, and the script, the production plan and the edit come from São Paulo. One contract, priced in US dollars.
Filming across Dallas-Fort Worth
Local DFW crews behind the camera, our own team beside it, on every shoot.
Permits, certificates of insurance and building rules sorted out well before the crew arrives.
What we produce for Dallas companies
Teams that hire us as their Dallas video production company usually start with one of two formats. A corporate film explains a company through its people and its places: a new headquarters, a hospital, a distribution hub, a leadership message to employees, an anniversary. A client testimonial puts a customer on camera to tell, in plain words, what changed after working with you. Both are filmed in DFW by a partner crew, with someone from our team on set, while writing, direction and editing stay with our team in São Paulo. More on corporate film production and on client testimonial videos.
Some projects skip the crew entirely. Animation, videos made with AI-generated imagery, edits built from stock footage and new cuts of material you already own are produced in São Paulo, with the same deliverables and languages as a filmed project.
A quick way to choose: if the message depends on a face, a place or a customer’s own words, it needs a shoot in Dallas. If it explains a benefit plan, a software feature or a compliance rule, animation usually explains it faster and keeps employees at their desks. Plenty of projects combine the two, pairing a short interview filmed on location with animated sections made in São Paulo.
Corporate films
Client testimonials
Leadership and interview films
Animated videos
AI-assisted videos
Videos from your existing footage
Corporate films
Client testimonials
Leadership and interview films
Animated videos
AI-assisted videos
Videos from your existing footage
How a Dallas project runs
Six steps, and who owns each one, from the first call to the final files.
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Creative direction
Our creative team in São Paulo shapes the brief into a concept, then a script or an interview guide and a shot list. Nothing is booked until you sign off on each of them.
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Production planning
From São Paulo, our production managers book the crew, check access and safety requirements at each location and apply for a City of Dallas film permit when the plan calls for one. You keep a single contact on our side from start to finish.
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Filming in Dallas
A crew from one of our trusted production partners in DFW films at your location. Because the crew is local, no one has to fly in and the dates depend only on your calendar.
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Our team on set
Someone from our team is at every Dallas shoot, holding the day to the approved plan, guiding the people on camera and checking that every scene is covered before anyone packs up.
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Editing and post-production
Editing, color, sound, motion graphics, captions and versions are done by our post-production team in São Paulo. Dallas runs two or three hours behind São Paulo, depending on the time of year, so feedback sent in your morning is usually in the edit the same day.
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Contract and billing
You sign with Olive Tree Films, LLC, our US company based in Miami, and every price and invoice is in US dollars. We hire and manage the DFW crew ourselves, so there is only one vendor on your side.
Included in every Dallas project
Work in English, Spanish or Portuguese from briefing to delivery, voice-over in over 50 languages, two rounds of revisions in each package, and the experience of more than 400 clients.
Permits, buildings and Texas weather
Most corporate shoots in Dallas take place on private property: a headquarters tower downtown or in Uptown, a hospital campus, a distribution center, a retail store. According to the Dallas Film Commission’s permit guide, private property does not require a city permit, so the rules come from the building: property management may ask for a certificate of insurance, a loading dock reservation, escorts or filming outside business hours. Find out early and send them to us, so they become part of the plan. Olive Tree Films, LLC carries general liability insurance in the United States and issues certificates of insurance.
Public space goes through the City of Dallas. The same guide lists when a filming permit is needed: city property and facilities, including parks and plazas such as Dealey Plaza and Pioneer Plaza; street, lane or alley closures and traffic control; blocking a sidewalk; parking in a restricted curb lane; and filming city police, fire crews or city insignia. Permits take at least three business days, and complex productions at least five. The application costs $50 per location, or $250 for a complex production with closures, traffic control, DART routes or special effects. A certificate of insurance with at least $1,000,000 per occurrence and $2,000,000 in aggregate must reach the city at least three days before filming.
DFW International Airport has its own rules. Its filming and photography permit page asks for an application at least 10 days ahead, charges $600 for a half day and $1,000 for a full day, and requires crews in secured areas to stay with an airport escort. Locations in Fort Worth, Irving, Plano, Frisco or Arlington follow their own city’s rules, not those of the City of Dallas.
Texas summers are long and hot, spring brings strong thunderstorms and hail, and winter can bring an occasional ice storm. Outdoor scenes get an indoor backup and some slack in the schedule; interviews filmed indoors are not affected.
We film anywhere in Dallas-Fort Worth and across Texas. Include every location in your request: the drive time between them decides how many fit in a single shooting day.
For the Brazilian chapter of KPMG’s global employer branding series Make the Difference, produced for the London company Beagle Media, our team ran a full day on set: one interview, five indoor scenes, an exterior at Praça da Liberdade and a photo session. Beagle Media’s creative director and producer followed by video call from London, and KPMG’s global team watched the interview as it was filmed. Filmed in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. A Dallas headquarters can work the same way with executives or recruiters in other cities: they watch the shoot live and give notes before the crew moves on. Read the KPMG case.
The trailer is public. The full film is available on request.
Relevant work
Comparable projects, and where they were filmed
These projects were made in Brazil by the team that plans, directs and edits our Dallas work. Dell, headquartered in Round Rock, Texas, is also on our client list.
Brand film in English
Tuvis
Tuvis’s first advertising campaign opened with a 90-second brand film in English, cast with native English speakers, which went on to win Gold at the Prêmio ABC. Filmed in São Paulo, Brazil. Read the Tuvis case.
Real and AI imagery
TOPMIND
A two-minute film marking a technology company’s twentieth anniversary, mixing real footage with AI-generated images, the first time our studio used the technique. Produced by our team in São Paulo. Read the TOPMIND case.
Three languages, no crew
UN Global Compact
An eight-episode animated series for the UN Global Compact Network Brazil’s anti-corruption campaign, delivered in Portuguese, Spanish and English; the English version was shown in Paris at a side event of the OECD Anti-Corruption and Integrity Forum. Produced in São Paulo, with no filming. Read the case.
Verified reviews
Reviewed on Clutch.
300%
increase in new-user visits to the Tuvis website, according to Tuvis’s verified review of our work on Clutch.
6M
campaign impressions, plus 27,000 clicks, reported in the same review.
Source: verified reviews on Clutch. These are results of the entire Tuvis campaign, not of the video alone.
“Everyone I interact with is incredibly friendly,” wrote Greg Johns, a videographer at OpenText, about the corporate b-roll we filmed for the Canadian information management company. Vittoria Tatavitto, Product Marketing Coordinator at Tuvis, summed up a project that covered planning, casting, production and post-production: “The whole journey with them was exceptional.”
Languages
English, Spanish and Portuguese
In Dallas, 41.2% of residents age five and older speak a language other than English at home, according to US Census Bureau QuickFacts. Our team works in English, Spanish and Portuguese, from the first brief to the last review.
Briefing and reviews
Approvals in the right language
Scripts, interview questions and review comments can be in English, Spanish or Portuguese, so every approver reads them in the language they use at work.
On set
Answers in their own language
Employees and customers on camera can answer in English, Spanish or Portuguese, and the person from our team on set understands all three.
Post-production
Captions and 50+ voices
Captions come with every package, and voice-over in more than 50 languages covers audiences outside the US.
Filmed in Dallas, ready for every market
Dallas-Fort Worth is home to 24 Fortune 500 companies and 49 from the Fortune 1000, according to the Dallas Regional Chamber, and many of them have teams in Latin America, Europe and Asia. A film made for headquarters often ends up in front of those teams too. Decide the versions before the shoot: which interviews get subtitles or voice-over, which graphics change by country, and which scenes have to work vertically. Planned in advance, each version is an edit instead of a reshoot.
Because our team is based in São Paulo, Portuguese for Brazil and Spanish for Latin America are part of the same project. Read how we handle multi-market video production.
Included in every package
Every corporate video package includes these six items. Anything beyond them is written into your proposal before production begins.
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Long and short versions
Two long and two short versions cut from the same footage, the long ones for presentations and the short ones for social feeds.
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Horizontal and vertical
Files in horizontal and vertical formats for screens, websites and phones.
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Captions
Captions on every version, so the film works for viewers who need them and for feeds that play without sound.
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Two revision rounds
Two revision rounds after the first cut, with comments consolidated by one person on your team.
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Usage rights
Usage rights for life when no actors appear, and for one year when the film includes actors.
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Music
Licensed royalty-free music comes included; an original score can be quoted on request.
Corporate video packages from $5,000
Dallas projects are quoted in US dollars, and a corporate video starts at $5,000. Before any date is booked, the proposal sets out the scope, the schedule and the price.
What shapes the price and the timeline
A Dallas quote depends on a short list of variables: the number of shooting days and locations, the drive between them, crew size, actors, interviews, languages, versions, animation and music. Building rules count as well: restricted filming hours, escorts or safety training at a plant or hospital can change the crew call. So does the city when a permit is involved: besides the application fee, if the permit calls for police on site, the City of Dallas bills off-duty police at $70 per hour each, with a four-hour minimum, according to its fee schedule.
From briefing to first cut, plan on 20 to 30 calendar days when the project includes a Dallas shoot or actors, and 15 to 20 when it relies on existing footage, stock or animation. Book a shoot at least 15 calendar days ahead. The two revision rounds then move as fast as your feedback.
What tends to shift Dallas schedules: executives’ availability, access to buildings and operational sites, and how many people must approve. If the film is tied to a fixed date, such as an all-hands meeting or a launch, we start from that date and plan backward.
Helpful before the first call, though not required to send a request: the goal and the audience, who might appear on camera, the locations and their rules, the approvers and your brand guidelines.
Companies that have worked with us
After you inquire
From request to shoot day
Five steps from your first message to the shoot, with the same team throughout.
One team.
One contract.
Filmed in Dallas.
Edited in São Paulo.
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Reply
We review your request and usually reply within 24 hours on business days.
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20-minute call
A Google Meet call to answer your questions and understand the goal, the audience and the locations.
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Proposal
Scope, schedule, deliverables and price in US dollars, based on what we learned in the call.
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Pre-production
Script or interview guide, shoot plan and the local crew confirmed for your date, with at least 15 calendar days of notice.
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Shoot and edit
Filming at your location, then editing in São Paulo, first cut, two revision rounds and delivery.
Related pages and cases
The formats we film in Dallas, and the cases this page draws on.
Practical questions about filming in Dallas
The questions Dallas teams ask most before they book a shoot.
Do you have a crew in Dallas?
Yes, through trusted local partner crews, and a member of our team is on set at every shoot. Creative direction, production management and post-production stay with our team in São Paulo, and your contract is with Olive Tree Films, LLC, our US company in Miami. Call +1 (786) 936-6428 or write to hello@olivetreefilms.com.
Do we need a city permit to film in our own building?
No. The Dallas Film Commission states that filming on private property does not require a city permit. The building owner or property manager sets the rules and may ask for a certificate of insurance. A city permit comes in for city property, street, lane, alley or sidewalk closures, restricted curb parking, and filming city police, fire crews or city insignia.
How long does a City of Dallas film permit take, and what does it cost?
At least three business days, or five for a complex production. The application fee is $50 per location, or $250 when the shoot involves closures, traffic control, DART routes or special effects. The city must receive a certificate of insurance, with at least $1,000,000 per occurrence, three days before filming.
Can you film at DFW Airport?
Yes, with a permit from the airport’s Communications and Marketing Department. Apply at least 10 days before the shoot; the fee is $600 for up to four hours and $1,000 for up to eight, and crews in secured areas stay with an airport escort.
What if the location is in Fort Worth, Irving or Plano?
Each city in Dallas-Fort Worth issues its own permits, so a location in Fort Worth, Irving or Plano follows that city’s rules, not the City of Dallas’s. Send every address with your request and we confirm what each location needs.
Can people on camera speak Spanish?
Yes. Interviews can be in English, Spanish or Portuguese, every package includes captions, and voice-over is available in more than 50 languages.
Request a proposal
Filmed in Dallas. Written, directed and edited by one team.
Request a proposal
Tell us about your Dallas project.
Six fields get us started: who you are, what you need, where and when. Budget range and project details are optional.
What happens next. As a rule we reply within 24 hours on business days and schedule a 20-minute Google Meet call. After it, you get a proposal in US dollars covering scope, schedule and deliverables.
Rather talk first? Call or WhatsApp us at +1 (786) 936-6428, or email hello@olivetreefilms.com.